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There is an 'old' technology that FATDOG has, IIRC, that addresses this work currently in Puppyland:

"Remote Desktop Server+Client operations"
Remote Desktop is NOT to be confused with Remote Display: They are NOT THE SAME! A remote desktop delivers the full spectrum of console use from a multimedia system as if the user was sitting at a console on the remote machine. This means visual and audio (often referred as multimedia) IS active in the user experience when the user connects. In layman terms, this means that one can, when connected, run the remote server's youtube app where one sees and hears the app's presentation at the their PC.

XRDP, unlike other offerings in Linux, merely requires the user to login to the server at connect time using his client. Clients are available from Linux, MS, and MAC with the latters already built-in their OS, Thus any client can connect to the FATDOG and get a multimedia desktop.

Questions

• Does FATDOG have a write-up, somewhere, on how to turn on Remote Desktop server with sound transfer in the RDP stream that flows between the server and the client? (I seem to remember a write up, somewhere, but cant put my finger on it in the forum)

• Has anyone tested FATDOG's XRDP? Either:

  • locally with both client & server on the FATDOG PC?

  • Or, from a remote client PC on the LAN?

In essence, I think there's a guide somewhere.

Clarity wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 10:57 am

Clients are available from Linux, MS, and MAC with the latters already built-in their OS, Thus any client can connect to the FATDOG and get a multimedia desktop.

Questions

• Does FATDOG have a write-up, somewhere, on how to turn on Remote Desktop server with sound transfer in the RDP stream that flows between the server and the client? (I seem to remember a write up, somewhere, but cant put my finger on it in the forum)

• Has anyone tested FATDOG's XRDP?

You write as if you have tried this out with FatDog, Clarity - otherwise you wouldn't know if it works as you describe it or not. Have you tried it, and if so, was the remote multimedia performance good (with good audio and video sync - i.e. no noticeable lag effects?). Also, how heavy was it in terms of bandwidth usage (assuming wifi, or did you use direct ethernet connection).

Tested in the past FATDOG v5 days and tested with the Lighthouse64 which was based on FATDOG v5. But old 40GB ATA drive of old, past away couple years back with my notes.

Sound was NEVER tested; rather never perfected back then.

FATDOG has upgraded to V8 and am curious to use its current product available to setup a FATDOG Terminal Server.

I do recognize that we are a little late in the current FATDOG life-cycle, but would like to test its Terminal Server multimedia functionality using its current instruction. I seem to remember that there are some 'official/unofficial' FATDOG instructions, somewhere, of installation XRDP on FATDOG, but can't put my finger on it.

Am I correct?

I use RDP on FATDOG every single day in a work environment.

I do not use multimedia, so cannot answer that part of your question.

However, I can tell you that the built in RDP in Fatdog (terminal server client) doesn't work as well for me as FREERDP in the repo.

Information on it is here:

https://www.freerdp.com/

Much info & guides are posted on the Internet for XRDP with sound in Ubuntu/Debian environments. But little exist for Slackware that would apply for current FATDOG.

@jamesbond or @kirk ... Is there a FD guide for this product.

I am currently considering maintaining a single XRDP server and relegating all other PCs to mere clients all getting their desktops from that single LAN service.

I have several very powerful current PCs (although not a requirement of course for this) that would be wonderful replacement instead of the MS terminal server I have.

If I deploy my favored FD as the XRDP terminal server, then I would cut all other distros and OSes and their maintenance of them out altogether. This would free up loads of time as it would flatten my support-maintenance to a single singularity in the home.

That results to a major productivity gain for users like me where kids are grown and house has too many PC distros to maintain.